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Syrian-Australian Muslim halts Indian-Australian ISIL Attack on Jewish Australians
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Syrian-Australian Muslim halts Indian-Australian ISIL Attack on Jewish Australians

Juan Cole

They made a trip to the Philippines in November and Sajid Akram used an Indian passport, while Naveed used his Australian travel document.

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Soaring West Bank Violence is Fueled by Official Israeli Surrender to Settlers

Soaring West Bank Violence is Fueled by Official Israeli Surrender to Settlers

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Rebuking UC Berkeley over Suspension of Lecturer for Palestine Advocacy

Rebuking UC Berkeley over Suspension of Lecturer for Palestine Advocacy

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Israeli Troops attack European Diplomats on Aid Mission

First the Israelis again erased a Palestinian population, ruling that the 120 Bedouin inhabitants of Khirbet Makhul in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank did not […]

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I lived to See the Day when the Pope and the President of Iran are more doctrinally Flexible than the GOP

I lived to See the Day when the Pope and the President of Iran are more doctrinally Flexible than the GOP

The United States has all along been a society dominated by the wealthy, and more especially by the business classes. But businesspeople are not all […]

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Top 5 Ways to Get a more Equal America (Reich @ Moyers)

Bill Moyers interviews former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich on the ways Americans could effect a more equal society: Reich wants to cap the size […]

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Iran
Iran’s President Rouhani and the New Hopes for Diplomacy (Sternfeld)

Iran’s President Rouhani and the New Hopes for Diplomacy (Sternfeld)

Something about hope Since coming to office in August, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has done everything to spell out the profound difference between his administration […]

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Climate Change
Can we have a Military-Green Energy Complex Instead, Please?  (Kramer & Pemberton)

Can we have a Military-Green Energy Complex Instead, Please? (Kramer & Pemberton)

Mattea Kramer and Miriam Pemberton write at Tomdispatch.com A trillion dollars.  It’s a lot of money.  In a year it could send 127 million college […]

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Iran
Iran’s Rouhani:  Not Seeking the Bomb, Willing to show Flexibility

Iran’s Rouhani: Not Seeking the Bomb, Willing to show Flexibility

Ann Curry of NBC News gets a scoop, with an interview with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, in which he restates Iran’s position that it is […]

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Energy
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Climate change produced by human burning of fossil fuels is a dire challenge to life as we know it on earth, and it will likely […]

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Government surveillance
Brazilian President Snubs Obama:   How US Cyber Espionage will Destroy the Internet

Brazilian President Snubs Obama: How US Cyber Espionage will Destroy the Internet

The USG Open Source Center reports on Brazilian press reaction to President Dilma Roussef’s decision to cancel her state visit to Washington DC this fall, […]

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Energy
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Solar Car of the Future: Sunswift Solar Two-Seater looks like an ordinary Coupe

Giles Parkinson writes that this year Sunswift is making a revolutionary and exciting entry in the annual University of New South Wales solar car competition: […]

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